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Macros - Part 1 (Basics)
Lab 6*
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- Lab 6:
- For this lab you will be writing a macro that takes in a date in "YYYY/MM/DD"
format and printing it out in words as well as indicating the day of the year
(you can assume all dates fall after 1900).
- It is suggested that you start with what you did for Lab 5 (or make a copy of
the solution to Lab 5) and copy it to
mcrlab6.mm .
- Add in a
setDayOfWeekStr procedure that will find the day of the week
corresponding with the date. Here is a template you can use for the procedure.
! Computes the day of the week and sets dayOfWeekStr
! with the day of the week for the date.
procedure setDayOfWeekStr L:year S:month L:day
set count 0
! Compute the number of days from 1900 to the start of this year
! Compute the number of days from the start of this year
! to the start of this month
! Add in the number of days for this month
! Now take ((count mod 7) + 1) to figure out which day
! of the week to use. This value can map directly into
! the DAYS list using SEDIT.
return
- When you are done use
UPDATE to add your macro to the
dictionary and try it out. The output should look similar to this:
nM> mcrlab6 2000/01/1
Saturday, 1 January 2000
nM> mcrlab6 2006/09/10
Sunday, 10 August 2006
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